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Podcast 263 - Caravaggio’s “Incredulity of St. Thomas”

Rebuilding The Renaissance
Rebuilding The Renaissance
Episode • Jan 31, 2024 • 19m

It was for one of his most important patrons, the fabulously wealthy banker, Vincenzo Giustiniani, that Caravaggio painted one of his most moving works – the “Incredulity of St. Thomas.” The skeptical apostle Thomas probes Christ’s wound with his finger in a disturbingly graphic way that only Caravaggio could represent.